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Rhodesli Luncheon, October 24, 2010https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/rhodesli-luncheon-october-24-2010/
https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/rhodesli-luncheon-october-24-2010/#respondMon, 25 Oct 2010 04:37:56 +0000http://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/?p=332visit our new site and check out photos and videos from todays event. Subscribe at that site and receive recipes for many of the foods prepared!!!

]]>https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/rhodesli-luncheon-october-24-2010/feed/0bendichosmanosAshupladoshttps://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/ashuplados/
https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/ashuplados/#commentsTue, 30 Mar 2010 09:19:38 +0000http://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/?p=318Visit our new site for a post on making Ashuplados!

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]]>https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/marochinos-almond-macaroons/feed/0bendichosmanosBendichAs Manos!https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/bendichas-manos/
https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/bendichas-manos/#commentsThu, 04 Mar 2010 00:23:54 +0000http://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/?p=308Yes, Manos is feminine and the grammatically correct title of this blog SHOULD be Bendichas Manos!!! Thanks to you all for the input.

However, once established, a wordpress Blog cannot be re-named. The only solution is to create a NEW blog……

Since this blog has received several thousand hits and has a growing list of subscribers, we decided to call the new Blog: Bendichas Manos (Bendichos Manos) so that those looking for the old name can still find us! All the original posts were imported to the new site. However, for privacy purposes, subscriptions do not migrate. Therefore, as we direct you to the new site, we ask you to indulge us and fill out the subscription form on the right side of the new page. We look forward to sharing recipes for mustachudos, marochinos, ashuplados, masapan, sevoyas reinadas, megina….etc etc in the days ahead. And after Pesah, yes, yaprakis, too!

Thanks for your interest, ideas and comments. We love hearing about your cooking and baking successes and your suggestions for recipes and menus. Thank you, too, for sharing this site with your friends and families. Your support is appreciated!

]]>https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/bendichas-manos/feed/3bendichosmanosYehoram Gaon singing “Un Kavretiko”https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/yehoram-gaon-singing-un-kavretiko/
https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/yehoram-gaon-singing-un-kavretiko/#commentsWed, 03 Mar 2010 00:49:16 +0000http://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/?p=302My boys love being with our whole family for the Passover Seder. They enjoy our special foods, the “agada”, the Passover story we tell, much of it in Ladino….and the songs….”our songs”…..those special Pesah melodies and Ladino words that bind our family and our Sephardic community. All the cousins know the words and joyously join in, proclaiming their membership in this special group…these songs, these traditions that distinguish our family. These are the sounds of “home”.

Yehoram Gaon, one of my all time favorite singers of Hebrew and Ladino songs, has two very special albums of Shabbat and of Pesah tunes in the Ladino tradition. They can be downloaded on iTunes. I highly recommend that you download and enjoy this music!

Go to iTunes; click on the iTunes Store link on the left; type in the name: Yehoram Gaon in the search box. Click on the albums Piytim Leshabbat and Shirim LePesach. You can listen to a piece of each song before you download. I think you will enjoy them all!

For the upcoming Passover holiday, check out the following from the Ladino Hit Parade: Un Kavritiko.

Sing along…..I’ll post the words, and you and your families can add them to your Seder this year!!!!

We JUST celebrated Purim…..and walking into the market today, I was bombarded with Passover!!!!! Time to start planning our Seder meals, menus for the week…….while preparing delicacies for a Banyo di Novia, in between! Our cooking calendar is busy for the month ahead….all in preparation for happy and wonderful things!!!!

There are several foods that my mom prepares especially and only for Pesah. Keftes di Prassa (leek patties) is one of those specialities.

In our family, these are vegetarian – others make them with ground meat. (these are one of my husband’s very favorite Sephardic treats!!)

This is my mom’s method for Keftes di Prassa.

Ingredients:

1 large onion – chopped

8 medium stalks of leek

3 eggs

2 tblsp matzah meal

1 C mashed potato or 1 C mashed potato flakes

pepper to taste

*optional pinch of red pepper flakes

to fry: 2/3 C oil
Prepare leeks. Cut 1/4″ from top and bottom. Cut in half vertically. Soak and clean leeks throughly. (leeks, by nature, often have a good amount of fine dirt between leaves. Make sure to clean carefully) Cut into 1/2″ pieces.

Boil cut leek and chopped onion in a pot of water ( covering mixture), until vegetables are soft and limp.

Drain ( squeeze out) all liquid. Blend into an even leek-onion mixture. Shape into patties.

“Home baked bread always had a special place in my mother’s house. With every baking, my dad would repeat in his Old World Ladino, Los panizikos di kaza ki no manki (Home made bread should never be lacking). Not surprising, each time I whiff the aroma of my wife’s bread baking in our oven, I repeat the same line. The recipe for rolls and roscas is the same and has been handed down through many generations. Nothing compares with that aroma. One taste and I am convinced, Heaven Can Wait

We tend towards the individual rolls, each one enough to satisfy you without adding extra pounds. The instructions below are for rolls. As my mother-in-law would tell us, “With five pounds of flour, you can fill the house.” Kaye’s panizikos di kaza reminds me of that every day”.

~Post by Jack Israel (my Dad!!!)

Ingredients for “Panizikos”

( homemade baked bread rolls)

8 – 10 C flour ½ C oil

3 eggs 2 pkgs yeast

1 ½ C sugar 2 ½ C warm water

Directions for making Kaye Hasson Israel’s “Panizikos”

Dissolve yeast in 1 C warm water. Add 1 tsp sugar to proof.

Allow to sit for approx 20 minutes. Yeast mixture will begin to foam.

We use an electric mixer with a dough hook to prepare our dough.

Sift and prepare flour.

Place wet ingredients (except for yeast mixture) in mixing bowl

(eggs, oil, sugar and balance of warm water). Add 3 C of sifted flour and begin to mix on low speed. Add yeast mixture. Add additional flour 1 C at a time. We are looking for an elastic, smooth dough, made with as little flour as necessary.

When dough begins coming away from the sides of the bowl, turn it on to your work surface. Work in additional flour until dough is no longer sticking to your fingers. Knead into s smooth ball.

Place dough in a bowl. Cover with a piece of plastic wrap, sprayed with cooking spray so it will not stick to the dough. Tuck plastic wrap nice and snug around dough. Cover with a kitchen towel. Place dough in a draft-free environment as it rises. (a cool oven or microwave works well). Allow dough to rise for approximately 1 hour. Dough should double in bulk.

Return dough to your work surface. Using a knife, cut pieces of dough about the size of an egg. Roll dough out making a rope about 8 – 10” long. “Tie” dough in a knot.

Paint rolls with an eggwash ( beaten egg with a few drops of water). Dip each roll in a plate of sesame seeds.

Place on a baking sheet (covered with parchment paper). Place rolls approximately 3 across, 4 – 5 down.

Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for approximately 20 minutes. We begin by placing baking pans on bottom rack until bottom of rolls begin to turn a golden brown, then move to upper rack. Rolls are done when tops turn a golden brown.

Fresh out of the oven, homemade “panizikos” are divine! They can be easily frozen (put 6 or 8 in a freezer bag). Remover from freezer and thaw to room temperature or microwave for 12 seconds for each roll. They toast beautifully and are a treat for breakfast, topped with homemade jam. They are often served with a plate of fresh feta or ricotta cheeses drizzled with olive oil, a few “zetunas” ( Greek olives), and fresh fruit. For an evening meal, a “paniziko” complements a meal of keftes or fried fish with agrestada ( lemon sauce)….perfect for “ountaring” (mopping or scooping up sauce)!

I remember when my boys were young, my mother would make “Folares”, or “Haman in Jail” as the boys called them, for Purim. The Folare was made of Bureka dough wrapped around a hard boiled egg. The strips of dough for a “cage” or “jail” around the egg. The egg represented the evil Haman from the Purim story, who is ultimately punished for his plot to harm the Jews.

My mother would make a base of the dough with a coin wrapped inside as a prize for the boys. I remember the year she made a batch and brought them to the Synagogue nursery school to share with all the children! They shrieked with delight at their special treat and loved that they knew the story of Purim and could relate to the tale she told!

I am linking to a recipe for Folares posted by my friend Linda Capeluto Sendowski at “Boreka Diary”. Perhaps you’ll have a chance to make them for your family and friends!

]]>https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/purim-purim-purim-lanu/feed/1bendichosmanosSee where you grew up!!!!https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/see-where-you-grew-up/
https://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/see-where-you-grew-up/#respondThu, 18 Feb 2010 19:37:58 +0000http://bendichosmanos.wordpress.com/?p=238This is a great site! ( Thanks to Sally Mann for bringing it to our attention!!)

Enter an addreess and take a ride down Memory Lane. Enter the addresses of some of your favorite places.

When the site opens there is a map on the right. You can move the “little man” up and down the block. There is a button on the left that allows the camera to look right or left to have a clearer look at a location.